Abstract: The Hongshikan I Paleolithic site is located in the right bank of Hanshui River’s third terrace, nearby the Hongshikan village, Junxian town, Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province. The site was found in 1994 and an area of 525 m2 was excavated in 2008 by a field team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A total of 136 stone artifacts were unearthed and 22 stone artifacts were collected from the site. The stone artifacts include manuports, chunks, cores, flakes, scrapers, hammerstones, choppingtools and picks, and show the transitional culture characteristics between North and South China. These stone artifacts probably belong to the early Paleolithic of the Middle Pleistocene by the comparative analysis of stratigraphy, and provide important new materials to study the Paleolithic culture of the Danjiangkou Reservoir of China.Some Acheulean-like stone tools, such as hand-axes, cleavers and chopping tools, had been discovered in the survey in 1994, but not in this excavation, so we have more work to conduct on the activity of early humans in the Hanshui river valley.

Key words: Danjiangkou; Hongshikan; Stone Artifacts; Early Paleolithic